ACT offers a free basic tailoring course for underprivileged, uneducated, and needy women in seven communities across Mumbai to empower them with skills that will allow them to work from home or outside. To date, hundreds of women have availed of the training and have started generating an income. At the end of the course, ACT rewards them with a Career Launch Kit, which enables them to initiate their livelihood earning activity as soon as they finish the course.

ACT set up an incubation center close to their neighborhood that will facilitate their transition from students to entrepreneurs and livelihood earners. Currently, ACT is running a pilot that will help fine-tune the program and then be able to roll it out to other needy communities. After 6 months, they can launch themselves by seeking work directly from garment manufacturers. The women are encouraged to work cohesively and create a self-help group that can become a sustainable working unit in the future. Thereafter, the next training cycle will commence.

A Tailoring Design Course on Creative Design, Development, and Sales of Fabric Products for Home and Personal Use

At the Andheri West ACT community center, 10-12 tailoring student beneficiaries are engaged in creative design and development of articles like shopping bags, totes, mats, rugs, coasters, etc. which can be put up for sale or can be made for bulk corporate orders. Garment manufacturers are partnering ACT in this initiative. The women are encouraged to work in a team and create a self-help group which can become a sustainable working unit in future.ACT set up an incubation center close to their neighborhood that will facilitate their transition from students to entrepreneurs and livelihood earners. Currently, ACT is running a pilot that will help fine-tune the program and then roll it out to other needy communities.

Through this program, ACT imparts vocational training to differently abled girls with mild to moderate learning disabilities and those with hearing impairment in the Navi Mumbai region. ACT is able to provide this service through collaboration with NMMC 'etc' Education, Training & Services Centre for Persons with Disability (PWDs) a local government organization working towards the rights and welfare of persons with special needs--and Inner Wheel Club of New Bombay (IWC) District 314.

ACT has set up a tailoring class in Navi Mumbai region for the trainees accompanied by their caretakers. The curriculum is designed to suit the students’ needs, and their caretakers as well as special teachers at NMMC ‘etc’ support the tutor to facilitate their training. The special students are very eager to master this skill which will help them earn money and become self-reliant.

Students trained in the ACT basic beautician course will get an opportunity to intern at salons and beauty academies, thereby increasing their earning capability and driving up their confidence level to pursue a full-fledged career from home or a beauty salon. ACT seeks to expand its network of salons and resource partners where its trained beneficiaries can be absorbed.

Under this program,
disadvantaged women are trained to cook and prepare meals and supply lunch packs to corporates and individuals in their
vicinity. Through this program, the beneficiaries can gain experience about the requirements of a catering enterprise,
including setup, sourcing, hygiene standards, accounts, sales, packaging, etc. Post training, the women are
required to intern at a catering service which provides them sufficient exposure and confidence to set up their own
catering service enterprise. ACT seeks internship opportunities and jobs at catering outlets
for the skilled women.

The Study Buddy project is a unique after-school study support program and is currently being run at three ACT community centers. College students are enrolled to help tutor poor and needy school students on a one-to-one basis, especially in the core and critical subjects of English, Mathematics, Science and Computers. Volunteers teach the beneficiary children after school, twice or thrice a week for 1 to 2 hours, and help to improve their scholastic performance. Volunteers who successfully complete the minimum hours of service are awarded volunteer certificates. ACT seeks more volunteers willing to donate their time and knowledge and help promote excellence in school education.

Due to shortage of funds, many underprivileged children often face the prospect of under-preparation for their Std. X state board exams. Accordingly, there is an urgent need for funds to ensure better after-school coaching within the school premises. ACT works with municipal and government-aided high schools to design a robust coaching program for fifty of the most needy students appearing for the state board exams. The threadbare cost for each program is Rs. 10,000 for a full year's worth of coaching. ACT provides support to underprivileged students by helping school authorities set up study and preparatory test schedules, by providing study material to these students, and by ensuring suitable staff hires. To do this, ACT depends on the support of its donors.

At just Rs. 10,000, your support will ensure that each student has the best chance at delivering the highest performance and give them the much-needed confidence about their future. Corporate sponsorships are welcome.

“All work and no play…” is a common complaint among students as they struggle with learning even as it aids their development, be it in languages, arithmetic, or science. In particular, children who live in orphanages or on the streets tend to not have a joyful environment and lack the fun element in their lives that is key to childhood. They also need to be motivated to strive harder and do better at school. In order to rekindle their interest in school, ACT conducts creative learning workshops to cover the above aspects of development in a fun and interactive manner such that it:

arouses the interest of young learners

engages them intellectually and emotionally

makes learning impactful and memorable

fosters team spirit and collaboration

instills positive belief and confidence in them

ACT uses creative learning methods like art and animation, dance and drama, story-telling, role-playing and simulation games to motivate the students to do holistic brain thinking. The students are encouraged to learn while having fun. ACT helps give wings to the kids’ imagination. It is a joy to see these children responding excitedly and eager for the next class. They forget their woes and trials for that brief time and are fully engaged in the two hours, which goes on over 8 sessions. The volunteers learn about leadership, empathy, creativity, and community service when preparing and conducting these creative learning sessions.

ACT supports education for underprivileged girl children from Std. 1 to 12 as well as professional graduate and post-graduate courses to empower them with the self-confidence and intelligence required to ensure better lives for themselves.

ACT humbly appeals to its valuable donors to fund a girl child’s education at Rs. 1000 per month for Std. 1-12 and Rs. 2000 per month for graduation and post-graduation courses. ACT ’s donors will be regularly updated of the child’s progress in school and college to keep them in the know about their far-reaching impact in improving the status of girl children in our society.

ACT has a rural outreach in a school and community center in Untdi, Valsad District, Gujarat by lending support to its education interventions in this region. ACT has funded the setup of a community center at Untdi’s Shantaben Vidhyabhavan Education Centre, South Gujarat. The joint aim with the school board is to provide rural students with tools to improve general knowledge, develop life enhancement skills, increase the understanding of critical health issues and ultimately improve the economic viability and sustainability for the region.